Imposed desires are the desires from television, radio, and other media, which create intense artificial desires within us. It is through such desires that we are put in motion.
Our sexual desires are mostly imposed desires. On the average we do not need as much sex as we are involved in. We do not need many objects we gather around us, but because desire is imposed upon us we obey our desires.
There are also imported desires, which are the desires of other people with which we identify ourselves. Sometimes homes, public places, and hotels are so intense with various desires that we almost identify with them, own them, and start obeying them.
Thus, control over our desires has a very healing effect upon our life. It is difficult to control the sources of desires, but it is possible to master our emotional vehicle through purification and make it sensitive only to higher objects.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Higher Psychism
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